The whole idea, is to get man to rely on man, and material goods for happiness.
The method is to belittle those who refuse to
buy into the whole credit, and
consumerism society.

We are meant to till the land, to trade good and
product that we ourselves produce for
what we need, what we want.

The anti-God society that believes God is evil because he will take away their control
perpetuates this until the point where everyone is a slave to the electron (the source)

The following movie is ten years old, and shows just how long we have been overconsuming.
The kids in this movie, are now becoming material hungry adults. Very good, by PBS.
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